I often wonder how ratings in the past were affected by antenna signals. Where I grew up, in northern Minnesota, ABC was the channel that came in the clearest with our rabbit ears, so that's what we mainly watched.

With all this talk of the writers strike that Tomlin went FiCore for OLTL during, it got me thinking about what stories happened during writers strikes in the past and what changes were made to existing stories/characters.
I remember hearing that Jesse Hubbard being killed on AMC was one story that happened during a writers strike.
What others do you remember?

And don't forget a couple other "pranks":
-Sydney having blood smeared on one of her robes
-Molly's bird being killed and sent to her on her b-day
-Tess's obituary ran in the newspaper (pretty sure she was the one that was supposed to get put behind the wall instead of Jocelyn, but Jocelyn got in the way and got it instead and Tess was unharmed)